Food Systems & Health
While training in social sciences in college, Dr Karla Hanson knew she was interested in engaged learning—“except we didn’t even have the language for it at that time,” she remembers After a job writing grant proposals for a community health center, she went...
Dr Katie Fiorella is an assistant professor in the Department of Public and Ecosystem Health and Section Chief for the Food Systems & Health concentration in the Master of Public Health (MPH) Program She received both her MPH and PhD from the University of...
“Feed the world” might be an over-simplified pop-song lyric, but Dr Elizabeth Fox, Cornell ’09, ’16, is working hard to explore the complexities of the concept Dr Fox joined the MPH Program in 2019, with a focus in food systems and health More specifically,...
In her sophomore year of college, Avni Patel enrolled in a public health social justice course The professor focused on feminist theory in public health “My passion for public health stemmed from my feminism and guided me,” says Patel After college, she went to...
Dr Irene Sumbele joined the MPH Program as a visiting scholar in 2019, coming to Cornell from the conflict zone of Cameroon as an Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF) Fellow Last year, she was named the 2020 Beau Biden Scholar for...
When she applied to Cornell’s MPH Program, Jubi Lin was most curious about the One Health paradigm “I always wanted to go into human medicine, but had never thought about how it was connected to all these sectors before,” she recalls She was first drawn...
As unprecedented unemployment rates and disruptions in food supply chains have continued to unfold around the world, the pandemic has led to a substantial rise in food insecurity, which includes actual and perceived lack of access to nutritious food...
As a Clinical Research Coordinator with the Solutions Science Lab at the Stanford University School of Medicine, Andreína Martin works with Latinx children and their Spanish-speaking families enrolled in clinical trials that measure nutrition and health outcomes Her...
When Emily McGraw joined the Learn Charter School Network in Chicago in January 2020, she had no idea how important her MPH degree would prove to be Before coming to Cornell, she has been a school principal in New York City, and now as Director of Curriculum and...
Cecelia Madsen (left) and members of the Cornell Lightweight Men's rowing team after beating Columbia Cecelia Madsen was a fellow with the Master of Public Health Program at the very start, before there were staff, faculty or students She had just returned from the...
Hirokazu Togo came to Cornell’s MPH Program on a Fulbright scholarship, on a two-year sabbatical from his position as Senior Environmental Health Officer for the Tokyo Metropolitan Government After graduating as first-ever valedictorian of a Cornell MPH class, in...
